A meeting is scheduled today with teh PRI members and the officials of SOUTHCO and NHPC ( agency for Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana to decide further course of action in implementation of the two flagship electrification programmes, Biju Gram Jyoti Yojana and Rajiv Gandhi Gramiin Vidyutikaran Yojana of state and central government respectively.
The basic purpose of the meeting was to finalize the list of left out villages and hamlets to be taken up in addition of to the existing scope of 1995 villages in RGGVY and about 500 BGJY. Since there have been complaints from the public representatives about the percieved non inclusion of their concerns in the elctrification program in the district.
There are about 80 villages which had been identified as either not approachable ( NA) or not traceable (NT). The final call on these villages will be taken by district administration and for the opinion of the PRI members and also local functionaries was taken today. Roughly 25 % of the villages, as per the opinion of the public representatives can be taken up as they have been made approachable by the way of formation of road work in schemes like NREGS and Biju KBK.
The collector Rayagada has instructed all BDOs to ensure that each and every panchayat in the district conducts a special meeting to identify its left over villages and send a list certified by the concerned ward members and the sarpanch of a particular GP to the Panchayat Samiti and then after validation by the Panchayat Samiti to the district administration for a final decision in this matter. This entire exercise has to be completed by 15th of October.
